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Uswitch Claim 14.8 Million UK People Hit by Major Broadband Outages

27th July, 2021 (20 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 4,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch, has claimed that 14.85 million people have been hit by a “major broadband outage” in the last year – this is said to be three times the number of the previous year’s survey (4.7 million).

Rural ISP Gigaclear Extends FTTP Broadband to More of Winslow

27th July, 2021 (0 Comments)

Rural focused UK ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to reach 170,000 premises in England (they aim to cover 500,000 UK properties by 2023), has just start to extend their rollout across the Buckinghamshire town of Winslow.

Netomnia Extend UK 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Rollout to Stockton

26th July, 2021 (7 Comments)

Full fibre builder Netomnia, which aims to make their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network available to 1 million UK premises by 2024 (here and here), has today commenced survey and other preparatory to work on their £54m rollout across Stockton-on-Tees (Durham).

Trenches Law and BSC Help WightFibre Boost FTTP Rollout

26th July, 2021 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is investing up to £90m to rollout a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire, UK), has teamed up with law firm Trenches Law and apartment block specialist BSC to help boost their deployment.

ISP TalkTalk UK Bundle Amazon Mesh WiFi with FTTP Broadband

26th July, 2021 (24 Comments)

New customers of UK ISP TalkTalk might like to know that the provider has teamed-up with Amazon to offer its eero 6 and eero Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi systems, which will be given to those taking out one of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based “Future Fibre” home broadband packages.

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CityFibre Experiences Contractor Woes in Derby and Eastbourne

24th July, 2021 (20 Comments)

CityFibre’s UK rollout of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the city of Derby (Derbyshire) and the coastal East Sussex town of Eastbourne appear to both be suffering from a few separate problems with contractors, with some sub-contractors allegedly threatening to “rip-up tarmac” that has been laid.

Openreach UK Trials New Approach to FTTP Broadband Installs

24th July, 2021 (37 Comments)

Openreach (BT) this week announced the launch of a new ‘Build to the Wall‘ (BTTW) trial for UK ISPs selling their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which could increase the success rate of new provisions to homes by changing how they approach the final drop to homes.

Survey Claims Most Rural UK Businesses Held Back by Poor Broadband

23rd July, 2021 (18 Comments)

A new survey involving 651 members of the Countryside Alliance, which was conducted by UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, has found that 85% of rural businesses view their current internet connection as being either poor but manageable (47%), or unmanageably poor (38%). Unsurprisingly, most of them want “ultrafast fibre” to fix it.

ISP Aquiss Launch Faster UK FTTP Home Broadband Packages

23rd July, 2021 (8 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss has today added three new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages – 300Mbps, 500Mbps and 900Mbps – to complement their existing 36Mbps, 75Mbps and 150Mbps tiers on the same Openreach based network platform.

Vodafone UK Reaches 940,000 Fixed Broadband ISP Customers

23rd July, 2021 (7 Comments)

The latest quarterly results (financial Q1 FY22) from UK ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has today been published, which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +29,000 customers (vs +35k in the previous quarter) to make for a total base of 940,000. But their mobile base declined again to 16,994,000.

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First Customers Live on Bradford’s CityFibre Broadband Network

22nd July, 2021 (1 Comment)

The first customers have now started to connect to CityFibre’s new £75 million Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the Bowling and Tyersal areas of the West Yorkshire UK city of Bradford, which is being built with support from civil engineering firm Network Plus.

Cross-Party UK MPs Consult on ECC Changes to Boost Fibre Rollout

22nd July, 2021 (1 Comment)

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Broadband and Digital Communication has launched a new inquiry, which will examine how reforms to the Electronic Communications Code (ECC) could help boost the deployment of “full fibre” broadband in rural and urban areas across the UK.

Stream’s Plan to Aggregate UK Full Fibre Networks Grows with ITS

22nd July, 2021 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Stream Networks has today added ITS Technology’s (ITS) existing full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks to their wholesale platform. The provider is on a mission to effectively bring all of the United Kingdom’s fibre optic networks under one roof via their ‘Stream Wholesale Full Fibre Network‘.

KCOM Begins FTTP Broadband Rollout in Crowle and Haxey

21st July, 2021 (0 Comments)

Hull-based UK ISP KCOM has today confirmed that thousands of premises in the two North Lincolnshire communities of Crowle and Haxey will be the next to benefit from their £100m network expansion, which is currently extending the reach of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network.

CityFibre Set to Begin £50m Norwich FTTP Broadband Rollout UPDATE

21st July, 2021 (4 Comments)

CityFibre has today confirmed that they’ll begin the £50m rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the Norfolk city of Norwich during “early” September 2021, which follows the appointment of Telec Networks to conduct the civil engineering work.

New UK ISP Digital Infrastructure to Rollout Full Fibre in Crewe UPDATE

21st July, 2021 (7 Comments)

A new UK network operator with the imaginative title of Digital Infrastructure (DI) has today announced that they’ve partnered with Aberla Utilities as part of a 5-year contract to deliver Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband across around 38,000 homes in the Cheshire town of Crewe. But they’ll face more than a little competition.

Cityfibre’s 1Gbps Derby UK FTTP Broadband Network Goes Live

20th July, 2021 (4 Comments)

More than a year has passed since CityFibre, supported by civil engineering firm J. McCann & Co Ltd, began the £45m rollout (here) of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the city of Derby (Derbyshire, England). The good news is that the first customers are finally going live.